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... with three sets of devotional materials—two papier-mâché medallions painted by nuns at the convent of Wienhausen in northern Germany on the eve of the Reformation; a n'kisi n'kondi figure from the Yombe group of Kongo peoples in the nineteenth-century; and a description, taken from Marilynne Robinson's novel...

... it is “to believe or to protest against belief” is fully realized in his discussion of three brilliant American women: Emily Dickinson from nineteenth-century New England, Flannery O'Connor from the mid-twentieth-century segregated South, and Marilynne Robinson, a contemporary from the Midwest. One of the threads...

...,” COMMON KNOWLEDGE 102 “President Obama and Marilynne Robinson: ACon Robinson: Marilynne and Obama “President 62, 17no. Books (2015),of York Review New ­robinson...

... for methodological, and perhaps also epistemological, pluralism. Eighteenth- century British fiction is cast in the role of portent for a number of philosophical and sci- entific advances, and one suspects that the author regards fiction from Sterne to Marilynne Robinson, at any rate in such terms. Fortunately...